What is the right thing to do when your best friend is hung up on a jerk who keeps breaking her heart over and over again? Lane and Vivi decide they need to protect Isabelle from her own tender heart, and hatch a plot to prove to her that there are other...

How would you feel if your life was defined by a mistake you made over three years ago? Especially when three years ago, you did not fully comprehend the consequences of what you were doing or realize how long that mistake would follow you. Deanna's...

I was almost late coming back from my break yesterday to finish if I stay by Gayle Forman. The story stayed with me long after I returned it. Even when I went home last night, I was still thinking about this exceptional book. Imagine if you had to choose...

Saturday, July 25, 2009 West Branch Library 2000 W. Franklin Street 11:00am - 7:00pm The beat of Boom Squad, Inc. will be the start of an amazing finale to the 2009 Teen Summer Reading Program. Join us for a free concert in the park at West Branch Library...

June is National Audiobook Month and teens at Central Library Teen Zone celebrated by learning how to read and record audiobooks for LibriVox. The program opened with the sound of an accordion and the voice of Death, the narrator of Markus Zusak's...

Some teen books are of a more serious nature: more emotionally charged, and sometimes gut-wrenching in subject. A few titles I've recently read, good for older teens: Things Change by Patrick Jones Johanna wants nothing more than to be Paul's...

Finding your first job or your next job this summer may be a challenge, especially in this economy. To be successful, you must skillfully represent yourself. On Tuesday, April 14 at 6:00pm, Central Library Browning Events Room there will be a program...

This is the big question for Jeremy Dance, aka Lil J, in Walter Dean Myers' Dope Sick . Lil J is a 17-year-old on the run, part of a drug deal gone wrong in which an undercover cop's been shot. He finds himself hiding out in an abandoned building...